Event Detail

Certain evaluative terms, like ‘tasty’ and ‘fun’ (often called
‘predicates of personal taste’), have posed a challenge for philosophers
and linguists. I explore how the distinctive linguistic behavior of
these evaluative terms is shared also by terms used to describe
appearances, like how things look, taste, sound, feel and smell. Why
should we expect this similarity? And how might recent semantic work on
taste predicates be extended to cover this broader territory?